Bruce Grenville, Amy Chen and Carma Hinton on Saltwater City Television

Bruce Grenville, Amy Chen and Carma Hinton on Saltwater City Television

Broadcast on Sunday January 11 at 1:00PM and midnight and Tuesday
January 13 at 10:30AM on Shaw cable 4 in Greater Vancouver and Fraser
Valley. Saltwater City Television is a volunteer Vancouver Association of
Chinese Canadians VACC/ICTV Independent Community Television Co-operative
production.

1. Senior Curator Bruce Grenville from the Vancouver Art Gallery
gives us an in-depth analysis of the exhibition "Home and Away" (English,
with Chinese subtitle). Until January 25, six artists from the Pacific
Rim explore modern day diasporas, multicultural living, duel residency as
well as the joy and alienation that accompany the wandering lifestyle.
Home and Away presents artists changing conceptions of home and nation:
Fiona Tan, Yin Xiuzhen, Do-Ho Suh, Sharon Lockhart, Jin-me Yoon and Jun
Nguyen-Hatsushiba.

2. "Chinatown Files" director Amy Chen talks about the situation of
today's Arab Americans as it relates to her film on the persecution of
alleged Chinese Communists in the 1950's era of McCarthyism. What
happened to the Chinese American community during the 1950s and 60s was
largely the result of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the unique
history of discrimination against Chinese immigration to the United
States and the anti-Communist witch hunts.

3. "Morning Sun" director Carma Hinton talks about her latest film on
a seminal episode of China's history - the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution. Also director of the acclaimed "Gate of Heavenly Peace,"
Hinton tells of her personal experience living through the event as
a teenager in Beijing as well as its significance to today's struggle of
the new class of underprivileged in China.

4. Closing credits are over last year's visuals of Robbie Burns Chinese
New Years fundraising dinner for the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop and
Gung Haggis dragon boat team. This year, the Toddish McWong Gung Haggis
Fat Choy dinner and festivities are two nights - January 24 and 25
(Saturday and Sunday). For info and tickets, call the Firehall Arts
Centre at 604.689.0926.

If you want copies, set your VCR to record it. Or ask a friend. It takes
alot of time to respond to requests for copies, especially since this is
volunteer community television and we have hard costs for tapes,
transportation and refreshments.

EarthSeen and Saltwater City Television broadcast thanks to ICTV
exercising its entitlement to access to Shaw cable 4, the cable community
channel. Let the CRTC know what you think about community television in
Vancouver when Shaw's license renewal is up in August 2004. Stay tuned.

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